Global Patent Index - EP 0251481 A3

EP 0251481 A3 19891011 - MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEM DEBUG TOOL

Title (en)

MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEM DEBUG TOOL

Publication

EP 0251481 A3 19891011 (EN)

Application

EP 87304612 A 19870522

Priority

US 87762586 A 19860623

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0251481A2] A microprocessor system debug tool has a mainframe which interfaces with a user. A ROM emulator replaces a ROM unit of the microprocessor system to be tested and has a monitor portion which is used to perform debug functions specified by the user. A user defined control line is connected to the interrupt system of the microprocessor system to cause the target microprocessor to stop execution of the user's program and jump to the monitor portion upon the occurrence of a user defined event to execute microprocessor specific debug code generated by the mainframe in response to the user's input. At the conclusion of debug code execution and the microprocessor resumes the user's program. A word recognizer is connected to the microprocessor bus to detect the results of the debut code execution, the results being forwarded to the mainframe for display to the user.

IPC 1-7

G06F 11/00

IPC 8 full level

G06F 11/28 (2006.01); G06F 11/22 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G06F 11/3648 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

  • [X] BULLETIN SCIENTIFIQUE, no. 4, 95th year 1982, pages 131-136, Association des ingénieurs électriciens sortis de l'institut électrotechnique Montefiore (A.I.M.), Liège, BE; P. BALTHASART: "Development of a low cost emulator for microprocessor Z 80"
  • [A] ELEKTRONIK, vol. 31, no. 26, 31st December 1982, pages 51-54, Munich, DE; J. MAJEWSKI: "Universal-Emulator beschleunigt Mikrocomputerentwicklung"
  • [A] 5TH IECI ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, INDUSTRIAL AND CONTROL APPLICATIONS OF MICROPROCESSORS, Philadelphia, 19th - 21st March 1979, pages 376-380, IEEE, New York, US; R.S. GOTTLIEB: "A microprocessor based debugging tool"

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB NL

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0251481 A2 19880107; EP 0251481 A3 19891011; AU 7458487 A 19871224; CA 1283486 C 19910423; DK 316987 A 19871224; DK 316987 D0 19870622; JP S634346 A 19880109; US 4796258 A 19890103

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 87304612 A 19870522; AU 7458487 A 19870622; CA 538093 A 19870527; DK 316987 A 19870622; JP 15524487 A 19870622; US 87762586 A 19860623